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- 1. The Great Plow-Up Nov 18, 2012
- Stories from survivors of the dust storms of the 1930s.
- 2. Reaping the Whirlwind Nov 19, 2012
- Families find relief in California; government conservation efforts help stabilize the soil.
The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
Oct 27, 2009 · The Dust Bowl refers to the drought‑stricken southern plains of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Jul 21, 2024 · Dust Bowl, name for both the drought period in the Great Plains that lasted from 1930 to 1936 and the section of the Great Plains of the United States that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico.
Nineteen states in the heartland of the United States became a vast dust bowl. With no chance of making a living, farm families abandoned their homes and land, fleeing westward to become migrant laborers.
Timeline: The Dust Bowl. For nearly a decade, drought gripped the Great Plains. Explore a timeline of events. Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees, Nov....
The Dust Bowl chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive,...
Jun 12, 2018 · The term Dust Bowl was coined in 1935 when an AP reporter, Robert Geiger, used it to describe the drought-affected south central United States in the aftermath of horrific dust storms.
Oct 19, 2023 · The Dust Bowl. Drought, wind, and poor farming practices created the Dust Bowl, but the economic disaster is caused led to much needed land-use reforms. Map by National Geographic Society. Credits. User Permissions. Map of area affected by the Dust Bowl.
May 30, 2012 · Dust Bowl. Families were driven out of the once fertile great plains by massive dust clouds--one that rose to 10,000 feet and reached as far as New York City.
The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s ...
